Steve McCanne
@mccanne.bsky.social
Coding CEO @ SuperDB. Co-founder of Riverbed and FastForward Networks. Co-inventor of super-structured data, SuperDB, tcpdump, BPF, pcap.
Someday SQL will understand this
December 3, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Someday SQL will understand this
In their recent paper on pipe syntax for SQL, Google argues that "|" creates a parsing ambiguity with bitwise OR (without clarifying that it's their presumption of an LALR(1) parser generator) so they standardized on the carpal-tunnel inducing "|>" symbol. PEG parsers don't have this problem 💪
November 30, 2024 at 6:25 PM
In their recent paper on pipe syntax for SQL, Google argues that "|" creates a parsing ambiguity with bitwise OR (without clarifying that it's their presumption of an LALR(1) parser generator) so they standardized on the carpal-tunnel inducing "|>" symbol. PEG parsers don't have this problem 💪